When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
From Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
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